David Maxim Micic is a guitar/keyboard player, composer and producer from Belgrade, Serbia.

At the time of writing, David is a student at Berklee College of Music, but has also studied classical piano and jazz/rock guitar. His early achievements include the composition, recording and production of over of 8 hours of original music, composition of music for commercials, movies and TV series, but also production and arrangements for many musicians, mostly from Eastern Europe - and all this up to the age of 20.

In the history of fantastic literature, there was only seldom an author as great and inspiring as Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). His stories are of a mysterious kind and, though they cover a wide range of subjects, they all are engulfed by one overall epic and intrigueing atmosphere.

Also today the Lovecraft-mythos still fascinates people. In Flanders it even summoned a real-life cult, for in honour of H.P. Lovecraft, the band Tyrant's Kall was formed. The musicians of this collective try to grasp a little of the aforementioned wretched and occult atmosphere, and subsequently channel it through their heavy and enthralling music.

The Trinakrius project, a Power Heavy Doom band, was formed in Palermo in 1995. In 1996 we recorded our first output, a demo tape entitled "Intrinakrius". It received quite good reviews in several heavy metal magazines. Notwithstanding the reasonable success and the numerous performances in various pubs of the city and its province, we split up because of various reasons at the end of the same year. During the six years we all had our own musical experiences in some other bands (e.g. Holy Knights,Acacia, Synthesys, Black Twilight, and others).

Girugämesh is a 4-piece band with members Satoshi, Nii, Shuu and Яyo. Formed in 2004 and spent their first years performing live around their native Chiba prefecture. Their sound is an evolution of western loud music and nu-metal styles. In particular, they are well-reviewed in Europe and play large festivals.

Girugämesh has experienced three European tours, and went on a U.S. tour in 2011. They disappeared from the spotlight after the performance at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall in October, 2012. However, they came back to the stage and released the single Incomplete and 6th album Monster in 2013.

Hizuma, Karyu, Zero, and Tsukasa who make up D'espairsRay formed on 09/09/1999 in Tokyo. They garnered vast attention in the indies scene since their formation with their distinctive sound, unique visual concept, and enigmatic live performances. Their maxi single Garnet, released in 2003, topped the Oricon Indies chart.All of their releases that came after also ranked well.

In 2004, they made their way for the first time to Europe, headlining successful shows in Berlin and Paris, kickstarting their activities abroad in both Europe and North America. In 2006, they played in a total of nine countries: Germany, France, England, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and the United States, garnering tremendous support from an accumulated audience count of 15,000. In August of the same year, they became the only Japanese band to play at one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe, Wacken Open Air.

Absence Of The Sacred has grown to be one of the leading forces in the Asian metal scene since their inception in 2005 with three full-length albums, two EP's and an official music video.

A constantly evolving band, Absence Of The Sacred infuses elements from various sub-genres of extreme metal into a flowing yet twisted technical attack on the senses.

Absence Of The Sacred has been featured and well-received in numerous local and international publications including Metal Hammer, Zero Tolerance, Metal Maniacs, The New Paper, Today, Live Magazine, Junk Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Blabbermouth.net, Metal Storm, Metal Magazine, Cherish The Darkness Magazine, MTV Headbangers Ball Blog, The Sunday Leader. The band has also received international airplay of their songs on radio, featured on national TV in Asia as well as web podcasts and their albums distributed in Asia, Europe and USA.

They produced several demos before releasing their first full-length Infernal Thrashing Holocaust in 2004. A well-received album by thrash metal fans and critics. They toured with the likes of Abigail, King's-Evil, Grim Force, Battletorn, Barbatos, Anatomia and Gigaton.

In 2007, they released Nuclear Thrashing Attack, and in 2008, a split with Crucified Mortals entitled Ghastly Affliction.

Eternal Elysium is heavy rock band. We're deeply influenced by '70s heavy rock bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Flower Travellin' Band and also doom rock scene got us much vibrations. We love also early '80s doomstars, Trouble, Saint Vitus, Pentagram and stoner rock community is so important for us.

These great music made the base-framework of Eternal Elysium's sound. We keep on putting out the heavy sound, but not just do that - psychedelic, blues, funk, noise - every kinds of music and art scenes have always great influences on Eternal Elysium.

With influences deeply rooted in heavy rock and traditional metal, Lunar Path has forged their music into an amalgam metal brick with influences from rock, epic, extreme and progressive metal. The result is most obvious with their freshly recorded full-length concept album.

Conceived in 2006 in the small town of Porvoo, the band has evolved through hard work and dedication into what it is today. Their devotion to their craft is underlined in their commitment and work ethics - obvious in the fact that all releases to date have been made within the bands own resources and skills, which have all been gathered and learned from scratch.

The roots of Gonin-ish reach back as far as the year 1995, when keyboarder Masashi Momota was a member of WWW, a Japanese progressive metal band, which disbanded the next year after only one public performance. Masashi met up with guitarist Akiko "Anoji" Matsuoka, who played in the all-female thrash troupe Oblivion and brought a taste for death metal into this union, which first resulted in a cover-band paying tribute to Swedish prog-legends Anekdoten, where Akiko took over the duties as bassist and singer. Soon their artistic vision went beyond playing cover versions, and in 1997 the project evolved into a band with new members joining. That same summer, the appellation Gonin-ish was found. Already at this early stage, a specific way of working developed with Momota taking the lead as main composer and Matsuoka deciding to express an ideal of chaos by writing all lyrics in her native tongue of Japanese.

Babymetal formed in 2010. The band's major debut single Ijime, Dame, Zettai and 2nd single Megitsune both reached the Oricon chart TOP10. Numerous appearances at national outdoor festivals included Summer Sonic 2013.

In March 2014, they set the record of being the youngest female act to play a one-man live at Nippon Budokan. Furthermore, the band's debut album Babymetal reached the United States Billboard chart. The same year, they held their first world tour from summer, performing on the main stage at Sonisphere Festival UK to a crowd of 60,000 people, and serving as support act for Lady Gaga for five performances in the United States. In the fall of the same year, they played a one-man live in New York, with an additional performance in London.

Whispers Of Fate is a musical project brought to life by Betty and Kaos that has always existed in their strong devotion to music and nature.

The musical composition begins in early 2007 and after many attempts to form a proper band the duo starts working on the first full-length album.

Even if the band's core still consists in the two founding members in 2009 Alexander joins the project as drummer and Venom as keyboard player. In 2010 the first album called Embrace My Winter is completed.

Taka Minamino was born in Osaka, Japan in 1984. Having initially taken up the violin at the young age of 4, his growing interest and diversity lead him to switch to guitar at 14, a decision which would offer him a creative outlet that would produce two solo projects, a guest appearance on a keyboard virtuoso's CD, numerous interviews/reviews, and a spot in the Guitar Hero Competition where he played his first composition in front of all star judges.

Taka graduated in 2005 from The Musicians Institute, where he studied under the talents of Kelly Simonz and Joy Basu and later worked as a teacher. Having reached a solid level of competency and skill, he sent a sample of his work to Mike Varney who featured him in his "Spotlight Column" in Guitar Player Magazine's September 2005 issue. This lead to an invitation, to compete in the 2007 Guitar Player Competition in San Francisco, CA, where he performed the title track from his forthcoming first CD, AngelWing in from of all star judges; Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Mike Varney, Greg Howe, and Nuno Bettencourt. Taka finished in the Top 10.

Blastanus is a Finnish brutal/technical death metal band that was formed in 2007 when two long time friends Antti Oksanen and Henri Fredriksson decided to take their love for extreme metal music and form their own band. Soon after the formation of the band, another long time friend Kari Väkiparta became the group's vocalist.

The band rehearsed songs as a three piece before they found bass player Mikko Hellström who joined the band in early 2008. In 2010 the band came in contact with saxophone player Jussi Huurre who proved to be a very fitting add for the band by mixing in different influences and spicing up their live performance.

Dakesis are a four piece progressive power metal band from Birmingham, UK. Considered by some as one of the UK's fastest rising independent artists, they have come a long way since their formation in 2008.

Mixing European power metal influences with home-grown heavy metal, a heavy dose of tongue-in-cheek cheese and a fair dash of contemporary prog to create a unique blend of modern melodic metal.

Emerging from a thriving music scene in the home of metal, the band have achieved much in their time together including high profile support slots with masters of the genre, festival appearances, UK tours and a highly acclaimed self-titled EP, racking up a rapidly expanding and incredibly devoted fan-base along the way.

Paganize started as a cover band in 2001 and later on we began to make our own songs. I sent a demo to Candlelight and they signed us and we began working on our first album. All the members in this band comes from different background but all had the same feeling of god old heavy metal. I have always liked that kind of music, so it was fun to play some "regular" music for once. We are now in the process of getting the songs ready for the next album, so I hope we are ready to record in the beginning of next year.